This month, we asked authors Darcy Fray, Kerry J. Charles and Victoria Noe—each of whom are participating in an Indie Author Day event in a different corner of the country—to take a few minutes to share their expectations, and how they plan to leverage their events to promote their work […]

Now includes full Q&A transcript! You asked, we answered. Available free on-demand. The indie book movement is here to stay, and libraries are quickly becoming a central part of it. Leaders at Library Journal (LJ), SELF-e and Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) joined forces with Publishing Perspectives’ Editor-in-Chief Porter Anderson and a Los Angeles-based SELF-e author to […]

Before New York became a publishing powerhouse, there was Boston. Heralded in the 19th-century as “The Athens of America,” modern residents and visitors alike still enjoy the city’s vibrant reading culture through one of its most notable literary celebrations — the Boston Book Festival. Each year since 2009, tens of thousands of bibliophiles from Boston […]

Join us on August 18 at 3pm EST for our next Third Thursday live Twitter Chat. This round, we’ll be talking about how to prepare for Indie Author Day on October 8. Representatives from two Indie Author Day partners — Liz Mays of Pressbooks and K.S. Brooks of Indies Unlimited — will join us, along […]

Sandra Farag | July 6, 2016 For the last few years, we have seen an increase in the demand for diverse books. This has been especially true for children’s and YA literature. Growing up in New York City, I was surrounded by diversity, which for me, was the norm. However, anything I read growing up […]